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Nobel-winning economist Thomas Schelling tellingly wrote in his 1987 book, Managing Nuclear Operations, how war-gaming has a quality that qualitatively separates it from SOP analysis and can generate insights not possible through cost-benefit reflection: 'to draw up a list of things that would never occur to [the purely analytical thinker]'. Liberal arts provide the knack for critical thinking and the kick to infer intent behind decisions, unobvious patterns, less-evident meanings, etc.

When ideas get out from academia into the wild, they can be surprisingly dangerous.

The leaders of Japan, South Korea, and the United States held a trilateral summit in August, focused on countering military threats in East Asia. Not surprisingly, China and North Korea were upset by the summit, designed as it was to respond to their military build-ups.

In the future, China may incorporate nuclear weapons into its framework of political threats, intimidation, and even the use of force to achieve its international goals.

Radicals are right to point out capitalism's need for growth at all costs is the road to ruin, but does runaway climate change wreck the prospect of a communist society too?